According to Redditor JamesFerg650, a trip to the Santa Clara, Calif. Micro Center for a Zotac RTX 5090 took a turn when he arrived home and opened the (apparently factory sealed) box, only to ...

Ultimately, each GB202/203 (RTX 5090/5080) chip represents a lost opportunity to manufacture a data-center GB200 (B100/B200) GPU, as both rely on the same wafers.

In total, Micro Center is said to have procured just 233 GeForce RTX 5090 cards for launch, and 2,393 GeForce RTX 5080 cards across its 29 US locations.